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Welcome to Bennett Blum MD
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Welcome to the Bennett Blum, M.D. website and information
about general elder abuse, financial abuse, undue influence, and mental capacity evaluations. This
page contains information about Dr. Blum, including a summary of professional accomplishments, expert services - including training, consulting, testimony, and other litigation support, and contact information.
About Dr. Blum
Bennett Blum, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both
forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. He is an expert on the evaluation of undue influence - including the manipulation
tactics, coercion and psychological conditions used by offenders to abuse and exploit others. His pioneering assessment
techniques in the areas of undue influence, mental capacity, and competency are taught throughout much of the Western Hemisphere.
(For more about Dr. Blum).
Expert Services and Litigation Support
Dr. Blum provides consulting
and litigation services worldwide. Major areas of expertise include:
- Elder abuse - Financial abuse or exploitation; physical abuse and homicide
of the elderly; sexual and psychological abuse
- Undue influence and coercion
- Mental capacity and competency - including testamentary capacity; contractual capacity, and donative
capacity
- Diminished capacity
- Brain damage and cognitive impairment
- Litigation and the aging population
- Insanity evaluations
- Mental disability
- Mental and emotional damages
- Medical malpractice
Contact us for more information.
Professional Summary
Bennett Blum, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both
forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. He is an expert on the evaluation of undue influence - including the manipulation
tactics, coercion and psychological conditions used by offenders to abuse and exploit others. His pioneering assessment
techniques in the areas of undue influence, mental capacity, and competency are taught throughout much of the Western Hemisphere.
He has consulted on hundreds of legal cases throughout the United States, including the criminal trials of Susan Smith, Andrea
Yates, and Theresa Ramirez; civil litigation case of O.J. Simpson; and litigation regarding Merrill-Lynch and the Orange County
bankruptcy. Internationally, Dr. Blum testified in the precedent-setting United Nations trial of General Pavle Strugar
- the first full competency hearing at the International War Crimes Tribunal since Nuremberg.
Dr. Blum's work regarding elder abuse, undue influence, and mental capacity evaluations
first received national attention when he was the only mental health expert asked to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transportation's 1999 hearing on Fraud: Targeting America's Seniors (testimony available
at: www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/0804blu.pdf).
From 2002-2004, Dr. Blum was a technical advisor to the Research Triangle Institute
for its national study on elder financial abuse and exploitation. This study was the basis for the Administration
on Aging’s “Financial Exploitation of Older Persons Report.” In 2005, Dr. Blum participated in an
invitation-only policy development conference for the White House Conference on Aging.
Dr. Blum works with numerous professional, legislative and community organizations
on the prevention, investigation, and litigation of issues related to elder abuse, financial abuse and fraud, assessment
of mental capacity, undue influence and manipulation tactics, sexual abuse, homicide, suicide, depression, and memory disorders. His
work became part of a nationwide 2006 training project entitled "Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response." In
2007, Dr. Blum worked with the National College of District Attorneys and National District Attorneys Association to review
the mental capacity and undue influence sections of their course "Prosecuting Elder Abuse Cases." In addition,
Dr. Blum serves as a consultant to the Fiduciary Abuse Specialist Teams in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura Counties.
He is also a founding member of the Pima County Death Analysis Review Team in Arizona, a multi-disciplinary group dedicated
to the investigation and prosecution of elder homicides
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Arizona, Dr. Blum received his medical
education from the University of Arizona and psychiatric training at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
His work has been published by the National College of Probate Judges, State
Bar Associations, and in major medical textbooks - including a chapter on elder abuse, exploitation, and legal issues in geriatric
psychiatry in the eighth edition of Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He
has also co-authored the internationally acknowledged seminal research on police-assisted suicide ("suicide by cop"), worked
as an advisor for several law enforcement training films, including "Predators of the Elderly," and taught homicide investigators
of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department.
Contact information - Worldwide Services
Offices in Arizona and California
Bennett Blum, M.D.
5425 E. Broadway Blvd. PMB #358
Tucson, Arizona 85711
Site Map - Undue Influence, Mental Capacity, Elder Financial Abuse
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